EMILIA_TIKKA

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“The collection External body is inspired by the texts of french philosopher Jacques Derrida. The main idea of the collection is the fading of borders between the organic body and its dress. In the past, our choice of dress was a way to express individuality. Now the body in itself has become a form of expression: a text that can be re-written and re-shaped by technologies and performance. In the 90`s the technological cyborg body of machines and computers inspired fashion. Twenty years later, the cyborg has changed into a biotechnological complex, where technologies appear organic and natural.” Photos: Zuzanna Kaluzna Model: Marcella Thurau Location: Berlin Zionskirche

About the Designer

Emilia is based in Berlin, Germany.

Emilia Tikka is a Finnish born fashion designer based in Berlin. Selected as one of the Vogue young talents 2011, her final collection was featured in Italian Vogue`s Talent issue and presented in the Italian Vogue`s Talent event 2011. The collection is exhibited in a private exhibition and several group exhibitions during the spring 2012, in Germany, Italy, and in Technical museum of Helsinki in Finland, as a part of the design capital of the world 2012 exhibitions. During the spring/summer 2013 her work will be exhibited at Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun Poland at "Wonderingmode" with Hussein Chalayan and Iris van Herpen, and MoBA 13 Fashion biennale in Arnhem. Through her work Emilia analyses the human body as an entity, and as the media of the present. Strongly conceptual and transdisciplinary, her current work is inspired by poststructural philosophy and by the history of the natural sciences. In her latest collection External Body, she explores the concept of where the reality of body has changed into a biotechnological project.